Professor Mark McGowan (University of Toronto) will speak on 'Honouring Indigenous Aid for Famine Ireland from Canada in 1847'

This event is co-sponsored by the Irish Heritage Trust, the Centre for Public History (QUB) and the Institute for Irish Studies (QUB)

This is a free event and all are welcome. It will also be available online via Teams.

Professor Mark McGowan is Professor and Principal Emeritus of St Michael's College in the University of Toronto. He is a specialist in the religious, social, and communications history of Canada and Ireland. He is author of the award-winning books Catholics at the Gathering Place: Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto (1992), The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 (McGill-Queen’s 1999) and Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (McGill-Queen’s, 2005). More recently he has also published Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration and Toronto, 1847 (Novalis-Bayard : 2009), The Imperial Irish: Canada's Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-1918 (McGill-Queen’s, 2017), Hunger and Hope: The Irish Famine Migration from Strokestown, Roscommon in 1847 (Cork UP, 2023) and Finding Molly Johnson: Irish Famine Orphans in Canada (McGill-Queen's, 2024) A recipient of four University Teaching Awards, he served as Principal of St. Michael’s College from 2002 to 2011, and as Acting Vice-Provost, Students, for the University of Toronto for part of 2013.

This seminar will be available in hybrid form, in-person and online via Teams. 

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